Life's a Cavalcade

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I had a knock on the door the other day, and a neighbour had left a jar of marmalade on my doorstep for my breakfast! I remember the day when he was six years of age and I took him to the studios and sat him on my knee and said, 'How would you like to do this one day? And I think in terms of your various dogs, I think they were in just enough, if you know what I mean. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. That's the thing today that drives me up the wall is when you hear this clapping going on and laughter for no reason and you wonder what they're laughing at where in those days you had an audience and if you didn't make them laugh, well, that was it!

The children’s TV presenter Glen Michael has told how he struggled with loneliness after the death of his wife. When Rikki Fulton died 10 years ago - attracting the great and the good of Scottish entertainment to his funeral - more than a few people were surprised to see children's entertainer Glen Michael there. On November 15, 1952, I turned up at the Victoria Theatre, Paisley to start rehearsals and I didn't know what the hell I'd come to. I was either an Arab or an old man or a drunkard or somebody with beards on and you never recognised me at all.Children's birthday greetings sent in by viewers was a regular popular feature, with Michael's production team also sending birthday cards to those who could not have their greetings read on air. I often wish we could do a programme today of, and actually, just do a programme as we did it then and put it on today and I think people would enjoy it, you know. The guy who introduced me, he was so nervous, the Newsreader, he said, "And now over to Glen Campbell. Everybody didn't like him personally but that was one of those things that people didn't, but as a performer in front of the camera, beautiful! I mean, I remember Macdonald coming to me and then saying, "Your ratings, you've got 89% of viewing figures" and I said, "Oh, I'm sorry about that!

I still see them today and they are all grey-haired, little, old people and they say, "I used to watch you when I was five! Anyhow, he came out and David Johnson was the Head of News at that particular time and he also was Deputy Controller and he said to David, "I've got Glen here, he's going to do the programme so we'll put him on a long-term contract. Michael leads the way to his spare room, a homage to his career, full of memorabilia and photographs. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.

In the episode, Michael receives a coconut and some flowers in the mail (in an attempt to recreate the Nintendo game Animal Crossing) and sends a thankful letter in response.